William Green House

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“William Green House is a historic residence located in the unincorporated community of Rochester, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article William Green House (Rochester, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1853.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Green, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1709 Madison St., Rochester, 52772
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. building
Township. Rochester township
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 99000488 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of William Green House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	WEST BRANCH FIRE DEPT.
7 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	703 310TH STREET, IOWA
26 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of William Green House: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Caudel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rochester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sharpless Dredge - Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Atalissa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hodgden Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kreb Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lime City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mc Guire Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Peden Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$5,000	Winds estimated to be 60 mph blew down some power lines.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$1,000	Tree down on a building near Rochester Park
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	-	Four semi trailers reported blown over at Interstate 80 exit 265. Time estimated from radar data.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	-	Estimated wind gust.
September 2022	Hail	Rochester	-	Time estimated using radar.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	-	Numerous reports of limbs down north of Rochester. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Rochester	-	Flash flooding closed Interstate 80 near West Branch. The flooding was not due to the Iowa River, but was in the same place that was closed during the major flood of 2008.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph were observed 2 miles south southwest of Rochester, IA at 520 pm CDT May 22. Some debris was seen blowing across Interstate 80.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be 70 mph at Exit 265 on Interstate 80 or about 2 miles south of Rochester, IA at 1243 pm June 18.
August 2008	Hail	Rochester	-	Penny-sized hail fell 2 miles southeast of Rochester, IA at 635 pm August 9. There was enough hail covering the ground to make a snowball.
March 2005	Hail	Rochester	-	Covered the ground
March 2026	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
September 2022	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
April 2008	Flood	Rochester	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Rochester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cedar County Sheriff's House and Jail	6.8 miles	2003
Tipton State Bank	6.9 miles	2000
Hardacre Theater	6.9 miles	2016
Hotel Tipton	6.9 miles	1998
John Christian and Bertha Landrock Reichert House	6.9 miles	1991
Floral Hall	6.9 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000488 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cedar County	All 21 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.